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T&L Extra: Alden Thornhill Previews The Starkville Derby Benefitting OCHS

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SuperTalk Mississippi Media

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🗓️ 27 April 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Starkville will see an event on Saturday, May 6 like it has never seen before, as 150 of the fastest wiener dogs in the state converge on the Cotton District for the first ever Starkville Derby. Brian Hadad talks with the event's founder, Alden Thornhill, about how this came together and what we can expect from these tiny competitors. Brian Hadad of SportsTalk Mississippi and Robbie Faulk of 24/7 give you the best insight into Mississippi State athletics. We cover the Bulldogs like no one else. This show is a production of SuperTalk Mississippi Media. Learn more at SuperTalk.FM Brought to you by... Strange Brew Coffeehouse - https://strangebrewcoffeehouse.myshopify.com/ College Corner - https://collegecornerstore.com/ Restaurant Tyler - https://www.eatlocalstarkville.com/restaurant-tyler Mississippi Beef Council - https://www.msbeef.org/ Two Brothers - https://www.twobrotherssmokedmeats.com/ Advantage Business Systems - https://www.absms.com/ The Rogue - https://www.therogue.com/ PriorityOne Bank - https://priorityonebank.com/ Dolce Gelato Treats - https://www.facebook.com/dolcestarkville/

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A Super Talk Mississippi Media Production.

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If you've been around Starkville the past few weeks, past few months, if you've been on message boards, if you've been on Twitter,

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you've seen it, you've seen it you've seen

0:13.3

people advertising for the Starkville Derby the first annual Wiener Dog race taking place

0:19.0

in the Cotton District next weekend on Saturday the fourth and that will be with the weekend of the

0:27.8

Arkansas game and that is going to be a big event it's gotten a lot of traction a lot of

0:32.3

great stuff going on and of course my favorite part is going to benefit the Octibald Hall County Humane Society, which if you've listened to this show in the past, you know, I'm a big supporter of them. Three of my, my, oh if you're going to take my picture man, I'm going to pop the video on, so hold on.

0:47.0

There you go.

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I'm a big supporter of there.

0:51.6

So that being said, let's talk about that event today.

0:55.1

Alden Thornhill, who maybe the best official title I've ever heard in my life,

0:59.5

the founder and official liaison of the Starkville Sausage Dog Society.

1:03.4

You know, there were actual sausage dogs, Alden, I might actually be a member of this myself,

1:08.4

but I don't own a Wiener dog as it were.

1:11.6

Thanks for joining me. I just wanted to talk about this event.

1:15.6

I'm going to make an assumption that you are a Wiener dog owner and there go ahead go ahead

1:20.8

Yeah oh I mean Brian I'll go ahead and show you where I'm standing guard in my office right now every day.

1:28.0

You know, they say Wienerdog people are a cult and, you I'm a I'm a I'm a card-carrying

1:37.2

member but I'm also a guy who loves shelter pads I actually have a my

1:42.2

sweet Lucy who's nine I adopted her when I was at state and she was a

1:46.8

shelter dog so you know the mission at October County Humane is great.

1:53.2

You know, you don't got to be a dog person or cat person who appreciate it because they got

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